"'The Accursed' is very much a novel about……" — Joyce Carol Oates
"'The Accursed' is very much a novel about social injustice as the consequence of the terrible, tragic division of classes - the exploitation not only of poor and immigrant workers but of their young children in factories and mills - and as the consequence of race hatred in the aftermath of the Civil War and the freeing of the slaves."
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312 Quotes by Joyce Carol Oates
Joyce Carol Oates has 312 quotes on this site.
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The suicide does not play the game, does not observe the rules. He leaves the party too soon, and leaves…
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The institution of marriage is just formalizing an emotion, an attempt to make it seem permanent. The emotion will last…
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I write so much because my cat sits on my lap. She purrs so I don't want to get up.…
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The body can't distinguish between cleansing and punishing for the body is ignorant, and mute besides.
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Alone, she took hot baths and sat exhausted in the steaming water, wondering at her perpetual exhaustion. All that winter…
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Blood transforms the warm bath water and, in it, I see weakly that this was a mistake. The razor's cut…
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The brain is a muscle of busy hills, the struggle of unthought things with things eternally thought.
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The mere passage of time makes us all exiles.
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Running! If there's any activity happier, more exhilarating, more nourishing to the imagination, I can't think of what it might…
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Of the widow's countless death-duties there is really just one that matters: on the first anniversary of her husband's death…
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Critics sometimes appear to be addressing themselves to works other than those I remember writing.
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We are the species that clamors to be lied to.
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May the same Almighty Goodness banish the accursed monster, war, from all lands, with her hated associates, rapine and insatiable…
— Daniel Boone
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Holy shadows of the dead, I'm not to blame for your cruel and bitter fate, but the accursed rivalry which…
— Alexander the Great
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'It's this accursed Science,' I cried. 'It's the very Devil. The mediaeval priests and persecutors were right, and the Moderns…
— George Herbert
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I feel nothing but the accursed happiness I have dreaded all my life long: the happiness that comes as life…
— George Bernard Shaw
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Comrades, just as the earth, after a long drought, pants for rain, so the workers of the world pant for…
— Grigory Zinoviev
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Look through the whole history of countries professing the Romish religion, and you will uniformly find the leaven of this…
— Samuel Taylor Coleridge
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And if there is still one hellish, truly accursed thing in our time, it is our artistic dallying with forms,…
— Antonin Artaud
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An intellectual hatred is the worst, So let her think opinions are accursed. Have I not seen the loveliest woman…
— William Butler Yeats
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You have delivered up our holy German Fatherland to one of the greatest demagogues of all time. I solemnly prophesy…
— Erich Ludendorff
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Because no other could do it, he himself went to the greatest possible distance, the infinite distance. This infinite distance…
— Simone Weil
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The greatest temptation for the like of us is: to renounce violence, to repent, to make peace with oneself. Most…
— Arthur Koestler
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As thou these ashes, little brook, wilt bear Into the Avon, Avon to the tide Of Severn, Severn to the…
— William Wordsworth
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